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Poo­ja Kapur

Exper­tise:Employ­mentWork­place Health and Safety…

Julianne Con­ce­icao

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William Clement

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Lawyers Week­ly | Aussies help­ing lead one of world’s largest law firm groups

Mer­i­tas is the most estab­lished inde­pen­dent law firm group in the world and is made up of 183 dif­fer­ent firms across 254 mar­kets with almost nine thou­sand lawyers. The group was estab­lished in 1990 and is led by an elect­ed 21-mem­ber board and this year an Aus­tralian, Ben­nett & Philp Direc­tor Andrew…

Impor­tant Work­place Rela­tions Changes Effec­tive 1 July 2023

Employ­ers and employ­ees alike need to be aware of impor­tant changes in the work­place rela­tions space, effec­tive 1 July 2023. From that date: the high income thresh­old for unfair dis­missal cas­es will increase to $167,500 per annum (from the present $162,000 per annum) and the com­pen­sa­tion lim­it will be $83,750 (equiv­a­lent to…

Press Release | Swaab Announces Five Senior Promotions

Con­grat­u­la­tions: Daniel Miller - Senior AssociatePoo­ja Kapur - Asso­ciateJonathon Youssef — AssociateJulianne Con­ce­icao - Asso­ciateWilliam Clement — Associate“This is a great sto­ry of invest­ment and suc­cess indi­vid­u­al­ly and for the Firm. These pro­mo­tions come at an excit­ing time in our con­tin­ued growth jour­ney and as they enable us to con­tin­ue to deliv­er…

Is your Com­ply­ing Devel­op­ment Cer­tifi­cate valid?

In the recent deci­sion of Wol­londil­ly Shire Coun­cil v Kennedy [2023] NSWLEC 53 the Land and Envi­ron­ment Court has held that the fail­ure by a cer­ti­fi­er or con­sent author­i­ty to include the ​‘pur­pose’ of devel­op­ment in a Com­ply­ing Devel­op­ment Cer­tifi­cate could ren­der that cer­tifi­cate invalid.  Impli­ca­tions A com­ply­ing devel­op­ment cer­tifi­cate can only be issued…

David Clarke

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Press Release | Swaab Announces Appoint­ment of New Partner

David Clarke - Part­ner, Cor­po­rate & Com­mer­cial Finance, spe­cialis­es in all aspects of Cap­i­tal Mar­kets, Com­mer­cial Con­tract­ing, Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance, Cor­po­rate Struc­tur­ing and Merg­ers and Acqui­si­tions experience.. “David’s impres­sive exper­tise and deep expe­ri­ence enables Swaab to remain ahead of the curve in serv­ing our clien­t’s needs. As with all our recruits, the cul­tur­al…

Lawyers Week­ly | Swaab Pro­motes Five

Lawyers Week­ly, 7 July 2023 | Swaab pro­mo­tes five, effec­tive 1 July 2023. Daniel Miller was pro­mot­ed to Senior Asso­ciate and Poo­ja Kapur, Jonathon Youssef, Julianne Con­ce­icao, and William Clement to Associate. To read the full arti­cle click here…

Alert | Con­struc­tion indus­try update: When is reme­di­al build­ing work exempt devel­op­ment? 11 July 2023

The Depart­ment of Plan­ning and Envi­ron­ment has pub­lished a ​‘Reme­di­al Build­ing Work – State Envi­ron­men­tal Plan­ning Pol­i­cy (Exempt and Com­ply­ing Devel­op­ment Codes) 2008’ Fact Sheet (Fact Sheet) to pro­vide guid­ance as to when reme­di­al build­ing work is con­sid­ered exempt devel­op­ment under the Exempt and Com­ply­ing Devel­op­ment (Codes SEPP): https://​www​.plan​ning​.nsw​.gov​.au/​s​i​t​e​s​/​d​e​f​a​u​l​t​/​f​i​l​e​s​/2023 –…

Stra­ta Reme­di­al Update: When is Reme­di­al Build­ing Work Exempt Development

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Com­mer­cial Finance

As part of a full-ser­vice law firm, we draw on our exper­tise in cap­i­tal gains tax, merg­ers and acqui­si­tions, intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty, tech­nol­o­gy, insol­ven­cy, plan­ning, con­struc­tion, employ­ment, and oth­er prac­tice areas. Our lawyers have advised on cross-bor­der financ­ing involv­ing var­i­ous devel­oped and devel­op­ing mar­kets, across sev­er­al busi­ness sec­tors and have held senior…

Non-Dis­par­age­ment Claus­es v Free Speech

The recent high-pro­file deci­sion of the Supreme Court of NSW in Net­work Ten Pty Lim­it­ed v van Onse­len [2023] NSWSC 829 pro­vides a rare insight into the scope and prac­ti­cal effect of non-dis­par­age­ment claus­es in deeds of release for employ­ment mat­ters. These claus­es are almost always includ­ed in such deeds, usu­al­ly in…

Women in Part­ner­ship | The Australian’s Legal Part­ner­ship Survey

The Australian’s Legal Part­ner­ship Sur­vey, released on Tues­day, reveals the num­ber of female lawyers is slow­ly creep­ing upwards, with women rep­re­sent­ing 33 per­cent of part­ners (up 2 per­cent on last year), 61 per­cent of grad­u­ates (up 0.1 per­cent), and 29 per­cent of equi­ty part­ners (up 2 per­cent). With 50% of women as…